A nuclear-powered 'tunnelbot' to search for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Between 1995 and 2003, NASA's Galileo spacecraft made several flybys of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Several findings from observations of the moon pointed to evidence of a liquid ocean beneath Europa's icy surface. The ocean, researchers believe, could harbor microbial life, or evidence of now-extinct microbial life.